1890 King of Southeast Asia

Hayden has some experience, but it is only the experience of the soldiers. He is not familiar with many things and can only guess.

For example, the Italian heavy artillery, he guessed correctly, is indeed larger than 200 mm caliber, and much larger.

This time it is a mortar, not a mortar. After the Russo-Japanese War, all countries began to design mortars, but the idea is to attack the top of the bunker, which is similar to the siege mortar.

Ansaldo-Vickers-Terney 260mm heavy mortar, caliber 260mm, fired shells weighing 223 kg, range 1 km, total weight more than ten tons, and a special gun carriage.

It is hard to imagine how the Italians transported this big guy across the Alps, but the Italians have been sitting still these days, and they are indeed waiting for the big guy.

The vanguard troops are basically light infantry, and they only took some 65mm mountain guns to move forward. The transportation of heavy equipment is too time-consuming.

The Type 13 65mm mountain gun is undoubtedly an excellent weapon. It matches the requirements of the Italian combat area. It is light in weight, easy to transport, reliable, simple and convenient to make, etc.

With a range of 6,800 meters and a shell weighing 3 kilograms, it is not inferior to the 75mm mountain gun of the same era. It can even gain an advantage in artillery battles because it is light enough (560 kilograms).

However, it can only deal with some small targets or unreinforced field fortifications. Facing the trenches of World War I, it cannot cause casualties to the enemy unless it falls directly into the trenches.

Just like a few days ago, the Italians used 65mm mountain guns for half an hour of war preparation, but did not cause much damage to the fortifications on the top of the mountain.

So, this is a weapon that is only used in field battles.

After the Italian Alpine Mountain Corps suffered a defeat, it attributed the failure to the mistakes in artillery preparation and the inability of the 65mm mountain gun to effectively destroy the enemy's fortifications.

Well, everyone knows that this is a scapegoat.

Let’s not talk about artillery. The mountain corps is a unit that is proficient in mountain warfare and should be able to complete the task without fire support.

After all, the enemy has no artillery.

But the Alpine Mountain Corps certainly cannot be said like this, and no one dares to say that the pride of the Kingdom of Italy, the Alpine Mountain Corps, is a waste, so the problem can only be the artillery that also participated in the war.

Then, the Italians shrank for four days! During this period, they kept urging the team transporting artillery until the 260mm howitzer arrived at the front line.

The firing rate of the 260mm howitzer is not fast, and it takes several minutes to fire a round at full speed. The two cannons fired alternately, bombarding the two highlands on the front line of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, firing a total of 80 shells!

"Is it over?" Alfred climbed up from the floating soil, shook his hands and wiped his face.

"It should be over. It has been more than ten minutes since the last explosion." Hayden was even worse. He was half buried and was trying to climb out.

The entire semi-underground command post was in a mess, with the staff's documents and drawings scattered all over the floor, and the phone was thrown to the ground, and it was unknown whether it was good or bad.

The reason for this situation was a heavy artillery shell that fell forty meters outside the command post.

The explosion left a pit more than one meter deep on the ground. It was not because the power of the 260mm mortar shell was too small, but one meter later, there was hard rock.

Because it first touched the soil, the shell did not touch the rock when it exploded, and most of the energy of the explosion was absorbed by the loose soil, so the rock was not seriously broken.

Why is the position on the mountainside? Because there is a gentle platform on the mountainside, the soil layer is very thick, enough to dig a trench system of one meter and eight to two meters.

In this way, a shell exploded forty meters away, almost taking away the entire command post. If it was closer, the collapse of the command post would definitely be very serious.

"Is this the power of heavy artillery?" Alfred looked at the large pits with a diameter of several meters on the position and on the mountain through the observation port that was enlarged several times by the explosion.

The largest crater is more than ten meters, right in the trench. It should be a cannonball that fell into the trench. It is more than two meters deep, and rocks can be seen faintly.

The smallest one is also five or six meters in diameter, and the depth is shallow, but the white broken rock layers can be seen directly.

"Napoleon called the cannon the god of war, so the heavy artillery is the god king." Hayden patted his whole body and shook off the dirt.

"Oh! Although I don't agree with the god king, you are right. The heavy artillery can really determine the outcome of the war. It is too powerful."

As a traditional Austrian nobleman, Alfred is a devout Catholic in front of others no matter what he thinks or what he does in normal times.

Catholicism is a monotheistic religion, and gods and god kings are myths from Greece, Rome or the Vikings.

"Hayden, can we win?" Alfred was shaken, but it would not be surprising if anyone was shaken under such a level of bombardment.

On a hilltop position, the Italians deployed two heavy artillery pieces and fired a total of eighty 223 kg shells, equivalent to eighteen tons of ammunition.

"I don't know, Lieutenant Colonel, but we have to try, right?" Hayden shook his head.

Alfred remained silent.

"Lieutenant Colonel, those Italian bastards are coming up."

"Lieutenant Colonel, in the shelling just now, we lost 152 people, including 60 deaths, 42 serious injuries, and 50 missing."

"Lieutenant Colonel, the position was hit by the gun many times, and there was a gap. There was a row of luck very poorly. He was hit twice in a row.

The battalion commander ran to the command post, and he left him a bunch of problems.

"Shangshi, do we want to withdraw to the heights?" Alfred observed the position and observed the Italian.

Shortly after the Italian talents set off, he saw everything clearly, so it was too late.

In a hurry, at least seven rounds of shells directly hit the 堑 or very close position around the 堑 or 堑, which destroyed a lot of labor, which is equivalent to opening seven gaps.

"Lieutenant Colonel, is the machine gun damaged?" Heiden looked at it, and Italy used at least two thousand people this time.

And hundreds of people attacked the right -wing hills, obviously they were attacking, and Italians wanted to be angry.

"Without receiving the report, they are all high, not within the range of the Italians." Alfred shook his head.

After learning the lesson, the Italian shells did not hit the top of the mountain, and it did not affect the machine gun position.

"I think we can try it, and even if we know that it fails, we should work hard.

"Besides, we are not without a chance."

"I don't know how many people came in Italy, but it is difficult to maintain the replenishment of the army to maintain the replenishment of the army. It is also difficult to transport those guys' shells."

"I guess that their ammunition will not be a lot, otherwise they should attack the two positions together. Once again, our soldiers will lose their will to fight."

Heiden was very experienced, which made him see the Italians.

The Italians knew that there were two adjacent positions, but they only concentrated the firepower to attack one. The Tirorer's shooter was not a fruit army. This situation could not be seen and unavoidable.

The Italians also knew, so they sent a troops to attack.

So why don't Italy fight together in both positions?

No money? Don't be funny, the price of the cannonball is not cheap, but they have used eighty feet, this number is not large, but there are a lot of them. It looks a bit luxurious on a position.

Didn't you see that the soldiers who were fully prepared were more than a hundred casualties in the puppet? One -time reimbursement is reimbursed, the shelling effect is still good.

Then, Hayden speculated that the Italian was so abnormal to attack only one mountain because their supply could not keep up.

It is difficult to cross the Alps, and the Italians also have a 260 mm killer, which will definitely take up a lot of energy.

So, does the capacity assigned to personnel supply and ammunition supplies not reduced a lot accordingly?

"The Italians are here, let's talk about it first!"

"Haiden, now the position is given to you." Alfred sighed and looked at Hayden.

If possible, Alverd still wants to withdraw to the mountain position.

Although it means that it may be surrounded, although there is only simple work, it is better than the mountainside position with seven gaps.

"Yes, I will send a signal at the right time, and the success or failure is here." Haiden said seriously.

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Bang Bang!

Another round of guns, the Italians fell three or five.

It wasn't that the Italians did not know if they suffered a loss, but there were just a few way up the road. There were no ways to use in other places.

The mountain peaks of the Alps, the vegetation is still dense. If it is quietly climbing from the wild, it is quite difficult.

Nothing else, the mountain road is difficult to do, and it is even harder to go without development. It must be taken slowly, and casualties will occur if they are not careful.

Therefore, the Italians can only go to a few fixed lines, at most slightly scattered along the road.

"No, I can't stop it, everyone is prepared, go to the bayonet!" A younger person picked up a rifle and shouted to his subordinates.

There was a gap in the position, and the firepower had a gap. After a while, he killed more than a hundred unique Uttime soldiers. The Italians arrived near the position.

The critical moment has arrived.

"For the emperor!" Lieutenant shouted and was about to rush out.

Tong!

A red signal bomb the air.

…… 咚 ...

The dull machine gun sounded, and the machine guns on the two hills form a firepower net, and the dead ends shot without the Italian soldiers in the mountains.

Heavy machine guns adjust the rate of fire to the fastest, and the top of a 250 -round bullet chain is empty for 35 seconds.

Twelve heavy machine guns, within 35 seconds, splashed 3,000 rounds of bullets on the Italian soldiers on the mountain on the mountain.

3000 rounds of bullets are not many in a battle, and they can't even support a consecutive encounter, but when the 3000 rounds splashed to the east of the east in 35 seconds, it is a bunch of Italians in the west. This is the occurrence of chemical reactions.

According to post -war statistics, this round of shooting did not have insufficient death and injury to the Italian offensive forces 10%.

However, because the attack came from multiple directions and directly attacked the Italian in the rear, causing the Italians to panic (attack from the side wings).

It didn't take long for the machine gun to shoot, and the Italians collapsed.

After the war statistics, there were 316 people who died or captured on the front or were captured, and 177 corpses that were ejected into the body from the side were shot from the side, and 788 people were dying (including death) on the back.

In one round of attack, Italy lost more than a thousand people, and only sent more than 2,000 people to attack, with more than half of them killed and wounded.

Moreover, the corpses scattered all over the mountains also frightened the Italians, and the soldiers began to reject and complain.

So much so that before the main force (two armies) arrived, the Italians did not launch a large-scale attack again.